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World renowned percussionist, composer, sound artist, and educator JoVia Armstrong will stop by WTJU Monday evening to chat with Second Sight host David Buie-Moltz about her Global Jazz Fusion concert this Wednesday evening at Reveler in Richmond. Second Sight airs Monday evenings from 7-9 (eastern) at 91.1FM, online at wtju.net, and via the WTJU app.

JoVia Armstrong is a Detroit-born percussionist, composer, sound artist, and educator. Her genre-blending work fuses experimental music, Black musical traditions, and immersive technology, creating transformative sonic experiences that take audiences into Afrofuturistic worlds. She was named 2014 Best Black Female Percussionist of the Year by the Black Women in Jazz Awards, became a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in 2015, and served on its executive board. Her extensive performance history includes collaborations with El DeBarge, Omar, Les Nubians, Res, Rahsaan Patterson, Joe Vasconcellos, Eric Roberson, Frank McComb, The Impressions, Isaiah Sharkey, and many others. As a bandleader, her project Eunoia Society explores immersive technology and therapeutic soundscapes, while her work with Detroit-based Musique Noire has garnered multiple Detroit Music Awards nominations.

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